Baby Corn

Ooh baby baby!

It's little. It's yellow. But WTF is it really? Come on, you know you've probably spent at least 90 solid minutes of your life asking yourself this very question. That's a lot of time. So let's explore baby corn together, shall we? Maybe we'll find some answers. 

There's a lot to learn about this freaky-deaky lil' veggie. Where does it come from? Who decided we should eat it? Why does it make us think? Well, as it turns out, baby corn isn't really a veggie after all. You see, baby corn  is actually a cereal grain (!?) harvested from under-developed corn plants. It's hand-picked and hand-husked from immature corn, 1-2 days after corn undergoes silking (a step in the maturation process I dare presume). 

Mini corn hails from places like Thailand and Taiwan. You can chow it raw, but its physical and culinary properties remain virtually unchanged when cooked. That means you can eat baby corn a whole bunch of different ways and still get the same holla-back taste and nutrients! And while a normal-sized corn cob is considered too rough for human consumption, these smaller wonder-corns are wholly edible; you can slam them right to your dome with abandon!

So rest your mind. It's just an awkward, runty mini-corn cereal grain. Nothing more, nothing less. Accept it, enjoy it and move on. You've got a life to live.